Professor Joan Freeman
Joan Freeman is a distinguished psychologist working in the development of human abilities to their highest levels. She has conducted and supervised substantial research, notably her continuing study of gifted children since 1974, and has published widely in this area, including 16 books. For the UK government she has written two major reports and provides advice.
She is Visiting Professor at Middlesex University, London, Founding President of the European Council for High Ability (ECHA), Fellow of the British Psychological Society, Honorary Fellow of the College of Teachers and Patron of the National Association for Able Children in Education (NACE). Joan has given hundreds of invited addresses in most parts of the world and appears regularly on television and in the popular media.
Prof Joan Freeman was honoured with the Lifetime Achievement Award in 2007 by the British Psychological Society.
Because of Joan's work, attitudes to the gifted - and accordingly behaviour - have changed for the better, notably the exposure of many myths about them.
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